[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Re: Add default tclsh text resource

[Tom Fetherston]

>Status: U
>Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 10:22:52 -0800
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>From: Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
>To: tomf59@sgi.net
>Subject: Re: Add default tclsh text resource
>X-Comment:         Macintosh Tcl Mailing List
>
>rscheen@metrolink.net (rscheen) writes:
>>Someone else:
>>>Please could you add a default "cshrc" text resource into wish ?
>>>
>>>I think a default behavior should source the texte file by double
>>>clicking on it and report error in console.
>>>
>>>The user should only have to set the creator of the text file to WIsH.
>>
>>That sounds like a fabulous idea.  But why stop there?  I just love how
>>MacPerl was ported (by Matthias Neeracher..?)
>
>Yes, it was me. Thanks.
>
>>--with a built in text editor, and the ability to load/save/etc, and make
>>double clickable and drag-n-droppable apps.  I know since the Mac Toolbox
>>already has a built-in text-editor "widget", this might be fairly easy to
>>do (alas...if I had a recent version of Code Warrior, I might try to tackle
>>it myself :).
>
>Funny like all Mac VHLL porters seem to wrestle with the same issues. A few
>days ago, I exchanged mail with the Python Porthers about the same topic.
>A few remarks:
>
>  - Using TexEdit is a suboptimal idea. In 1993, alternatives were not readily
>    available, but in 1996, you should have a good reason not to use WASTE
>    before considering TextEdit.
>  - Possibly, just making a restartable, DoScript capable, wish and adapting
>    the MacPerl support code for Alpha and BEdit would keep people just
>    as happy with far less effort.
>  - Droplets are trivial if you have DoScript AppleEvent support.
>  - The major effort with MacPerl was to make the interpreter restartable.
>    For Tcl, this should be much less of an issue, since Tcl is designed
>    for interpreters to be constructed and destructed at will
>  - Feel free to borrow any code you need from the MacPerl sources
>    (Apparently my source code is so incomprehensible that de facto
>    hardly anybody ever takes me up on such offers :-)
>
>Matthias
>
>-----
>Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
>  "Faced with the choice between changing one's own mind and proving that
>   there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. "
>                                  -- John Kenneth Galbraith
>



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